how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.